WALD Sportsline Nissan GT-R renderings
1 Sep, 2008
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In the Japanese instruction manual for the GT-R, Nissan actually specifies that customers should not try to ‘improve’ their cars with bodykits or oversized spoilers.
However in this case we will make an exception, with Japanese styling company WALD International having today released its first preliminary renderings of its own take on the GT-R.
Still in the concept stage, the WALD Sportsline GT-R certainly shows promise in conveying the Nissan’s ruthless performance - if not a little over the top.
Despite being located in Japan, the company mainly focuses on styling European models - particularly Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
Click here to view the full range of WALD International vehicles.
Source: WALD International via GTR Blog
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September 1st, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Looks awesome…
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September 2nd, 2008 at 1:35 am
That looks insane! THATS what a GTR should look like!
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September 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
Still ugly, nothing can save it with those headlights and front end.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 am
YET ANOTHER overpriced UGLY MOFO Car on the market…..ass of it looks absolutely crap…
can anyone say macrame’.
ewwwwww
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Considering the supercar performance id hardly call the GTR overpriced
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Love that rear diffuser and the quad pipes.
Wonder how the kit affects the Cd? Given that this car was carefully sculpted to give an ultra low Cd, might be sacrificing performance for looks. Worth it though.
Marcos what do you think is an attractive car on the market now? And what does “yet another [one]” mean?
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 am
Yes that is very tough looking. Love the rear skirts on the rear wheels. I’ll never have one of these until they are on the used imports corner caryard sometime in 2016.
*sighs*
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
I love it. Particularly the rear overfenders - so very KPGC10. I’d buy it for mine, if it ever arrives…
Jeff
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Fwoar, check out the catalog of WALD kits. An E90 3-series with the WALD kit anyone? S-Class Black Bison edition?
Those are some mighty nice cars.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
it looks crap… i mean really bodykits are for boyracers with too much money. All they have done is added vents and grey bits which really only serve to make the car look more fussy then it already was. And that rear guard is disgracefull.
But the single biggest problem with the car and the reason why anyone who puts one on a GTR is a complete nit is the fact that the GTR was heavily styled based on aerodynamic efficiency based on wind tunnel testing, all that kit will serve to do is mess up the airflow over the car and reduce the aero efficiency nissan worked so hard to create. And don’t tell me “oh but its got a diffuser!!” because the diffuser is clearly too shallow to work properly. They even messed with nissan’s factory spoiler that was designed specifically for the aero of the car! i mean how stupid can people get. If ANYONE messes with the body of their GTR then the whole car should be repossed from them on the count of them being too stupid to fully appreciate the engineering that has gone into their car.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
but the single biggest reason to leave your GTR un-molestored is the fact that in 10 years time, a 100% original version of this car will appreciate massively in value. Look at all the spaz’s who modified the original GTR, particularly the australian delivered ones. An australian delivered, 100% original R32 GTR would be worth well over 100k now days if you can find the right buyer, but nope too many people where stupid and wrecked their car through modifications to try and keep up with their “fulli sick” mates.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Richo you are correct in a sense that (for any car ) millions would have gone into R&D to build the GT-R and by modifying the car would trully mess up what it was originally intended by the manufacturer.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Urgh…
If I had one, I would tint the windows and perhaps change the wheels. Anything else would be bad taste, a waste of money and, like on a Ferrari/Porsche etc., just ruin the original form and styling.
Fail WALD and Fail Car Advice for suggesting this abortion looks good…
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September 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I’m not sure you know what you’re talking about Richo.
“The diffuser is too shallow to work” how do you know? Are you an aerodynamics engineer?
“All they have done is added vents and grey bits which really only serve to make the car look more fussy then it already was” I suspect those vents would provide good brake cooling, functional, no?
The spoiler too, I can’t see properly, but is it rake adjustable? If not it certainly looks like it has a sharper rake than the standard GTR.
So perhaps WALD have some idea of what they’re doing. Even if they don’t, it’s still a fantastic looking car.
I think more likely a car like this will be worth more than a stock GTR in the future. Look at a Mine’s or Tommi Kaira edition GT-Rs of old; tell me they aren’t very rare and expensive. Veilside kits too.
Plus the only originally delivered Australia R32 GT-Rs were Bathurst editions, and of the few around they aren’t very modified. No one bought a R32 GT-R Bathurst to be “fully sick”. Those people couldn’t afford one/didn’t know what they were.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
‘a little overdone’ nothing. looks great. thumbs up from me.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
GTRmon - firstly the diffuser, I understand how a diffuser works and therefore I know that it needs to be quite deep to generate and downforce. It works by creating a kind of vacume, where air suddenly has to rush into a deep pocket in order to fill it, but if their isn’t enough air then it creates suction, and therefore downforce. Now if its really shallow then air will have no problem filling the pocket, and therefore no suction and therefore downforce will be created. It might just be a bad rendering, but by the looks of those photo’s the rake of the diffuser is way to shallow to achieve anything. As for the front bar providing cooling to the brakes, I would suggest your being very optimistic there, none of those vents look like brake ducts, they all look 100% styling mate.
As for this kit actually making it MORE valuable, well dream on mate. Collectors don’t go around buying modified cars, they just don’t. Recently a stock VS HSV GTS-R sold nearly $200k. More money then sense? Maybe, but he’s not alone! But how much do you think a modified HSV GTS-R goes for? You’d be lucky to get $40k for one. Big difference isn’t it? Even people in the modified car industry will freely admit you will never get your money back when modifying your car, you anyone who thinks they will need to get in touch with reality. Modified car hero’s may be willing to pay more for a modified skyline GTS-T then they will for a stock one, but when your talking about a RARE car like a GTR, the really big money isn’t paid by the fast and the furious wannabe’s, its paid by serious collectors who will walk away from anything that even has an aftermarket stereo in it!
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September 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
this is where the difference between car enthousiests and boyracers come in. You will never see a proper car enthousiests go around putting bodykits and cannons on their cars! Anyone driving a bodykitted car who claims to be an enthousiest just doesn’t get it. Sorry if my opinion seems strong, but its my opinion and its shared by many. It’s not just car hating greenies who shake their heads at modified cars, its car enthousiests too because 95% of the time the driver is a wannabe
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September 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The diffuser does look good, if useless then. But under the same argument the aero on any road car won’t provide much downforce (not nearly as much as a race car). Road cars are too high off the ground. It’s more likely deep chin spoilers and diffusers on road cars serve a drag minimising purpose. Or, particularly in the case of front aero, increases air flow through radiators/intercoolers.
I agree that you’ll never make money off a self-modified car. But factory mods and specials editions I disagree. A genuine Mine’s edition R34 GT-R is very very expensive. Likewise an original Z-tune R34 GT-R is big money. I put big name companies like Veilside, WALD, NISMO, HKS, Mine’s, Tommi Kaira and the like into a category where cars modified by them fetch high prices.
Besides, I’m not convinced car collectors are the same as car enthusiasts. I agree that to have a collectable car means no mods, no kms, shiny as hell. Cars that are driven properly don’t look that way.
My R32 GT-R gets driven on the track a fair bit and is dirty, has aftermarket engine mods, has some body damage due to tyre walls and the like; that’s a properly driven car, not a collector’s car.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The kit does make the car look like it belongs on the set of the next Fasy and the Furious movie. I probably share the concerns that the kit is done for aesthetic reasons, not aerodynamic ones. I doubt that any aftermarket kit builder has the resources to carefully check the effectiveness of their body modifications in any truly scientific manner. As has been said… Nissan spends millions to achieve their desired Cd and downforce figures in wind tunnels. I would be curious to see how their aero mods affect high speed handling and top speed.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 am
Theres no way you can get all your money back from car modifications, but if you are talking about limited editions or factory supertuned models like what GTRmon mentioned then yes.
I agree with the comments of it affecting the drag of this car, the original car has been carefully sculpted, any kit should be questioned.
Rich you should ask yourself whats a ‘car enthusiast’ as modification to your car whether it be personalisation or performance or both orientated is showing enthusiasm in automotive, its only when people portray themselves to be a ‘hero’ or something their not is the problem especially when they break the law in doing so.
…and i doubt a R32GTR can fetch 100k today, perhaps in 10-20years when there are not many of them on the road, the rarity will bump up the price.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
Looks crap…as much as I like the GTR this body kit especially the rear guards looks strange.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
Joober - not just any R32 GTR, an australian delivered one, their ain’t many of them running around and even less of them un-molestored. They are worth bucketloads.
Not quite a road car, but apparently the freddy gibson ones, still in winfield colours, are worth well over 500k now.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Sorry r32 but $200,000 AUD (est) cost for a NISSAN is a joke, besides it looks like someone has shunted it in the asss…sqaured off the back and front for that matter with a builders trowel….
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September 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Marcos, 1million for a Holden is a joke too!, cars as collectors are worth on their rarity and what it stood for in its era, The GTR was a giant killer in the day and now the new one has withheld that name once again.
Richo, your talking about the bathurst ones? if so being a limited edition and what they represent by what they did in bathurst 90-92??? surely would make this car very wanted and pricey too.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Sorry I didn’t quite understand your post, but i think you where getting at the fact that the Bathurst models where limited editions and therefore voiding my argument that modified cars are not collectable. If so then thats not voiding my argument at all because of course FACTORY limited edition cars are collectable, for many cars that the only thing that makes them collectable! Its aftermarket mods which make them non-collectable. Unless ofcourse its a race car in which case its the cars pedigree that makes it collectable. In the case of the R32 GTR then pretty much any australian delivered one is valuable provided they are unmodified, however if its a group a spec race version, then its massively collectable provided it has a pedigree, ie the fred gibson ones.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
and as well all know, ANY car that has won bathurst is hugely collectable. I think pretty soon people will wake up and realise that the bathurst winning V8 supercars will be pretty valuable as well! So far people aren’t really paying attention to them and some are even still being risked in race meetings! But some of the smart cookies are locking them away, HRT still ownes craig lowndes’s VR commodore he won both the championship and bathurst in in 1996, although it does currently have pretty major structural damage due to a crash lowndes had at the 1999 gold coast indy (HRT used older commodores at that meeting as bathurst was only 2 weeks later and they didnt want to risk the current machinery). But why would HRT still be holding onto a badly damaged race car sitting in a corner doing nothing unless they knew EXACTLY how much it will be worth whenever they get assed enough to fix it! I bet they still have a whole bunch of original parts for it aswell!
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Sorry Richo, my wording is a bit suss, to clarify im not voiding your argument, but agree to whats seen as collectable which falls to limited edition model really not just the bathurst ones. And no doubt race cars which acheive something in their lifetime is definately of value in one to many fans’ eyes.
Wholly agree once you start tinkering a market delivered car, its potential to gain in value in the future is pretty much gone.
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September 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Richo STFU you Wanker! Seriously STOP refreshing this site and commenting over and over again.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Goodness!
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October 13th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Car looks great , as for car mods , people that mod their cars are enthusiasts for mods and they dont care if they will or will not get their money back , they do it because they love it so stop saying shit about them .
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